"We must develop industries outside of tourism that will allow us the freedom to live happy, successful lives regardless of what is going on in the rest of the world."
Los Angeles Times
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It was the life any kid could only dream of, bounding across the country in an overstuffed camper from San Clemente to Pensacola to the shoreline of Venezuela, always searching for the perfect wave.
With Dorian Paskowitz at the wheel, nine kids jammed in the back and Juliette riding shotgun, the family finally parked the rig on the sand in San Onofre, opened a surf camp and spent their days riding the glassy curls, playing in the whitewash and chasing one another from lifeguard tower to lifeguard tower.
“If ‘Nomadland’ was a 2, we were at a 10 as far as sheer adventure, uncertainty, homelessness and never knowing what the next day might bring,” said Israel “Izzy” Paskowitz, the fourth-oldest child in the clan. “It was wonderful.”